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Charlie Rangel probe has Palm Beach connectionBy Shannon Donnelly Daily News Society Editor Updated: 6:58 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 More proof that Palm Beach is the center of the media universe. The businessman at the center of the Charlie Rangel flap is Eugene Isenberg, a generous supporter of local arts charities and a resident of — wait for it — Breakers Row. Isenberg, who pledged $1 million to the CCNY school to be named for Rangel, met with Rangel more than a year later to discuss a tax break that Rangel, the chairman of the House Ways and Means...

  David Kocieniewski reports in the New York Times that former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau (at right) owned stock in Nabors Industries at the time he introduced the company’s CEO Eugene Isenberg to Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY).  Isenberg made a $1 million pledge to the so-called Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York (CCNY) while Rangel helped preserve a tax break for Nabors worth hundreds of millions.The Times cites information from my pointed questioning of Isenberg at the Nabors 2009 annual meeting. From the Times: Mr. Morgenthau, who has known both...

Dr. Sherwin Isenberg describes his encounter with Rabbi Gavriel & Rivka Holtzberg at the Chabad of Mumbai the week before their tragic murder by Islamic Terrorists.